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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1873/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1873/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/36-37/48",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Railways Act 1873",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1873",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make better provision for carrying into effect the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 and for other purposes connected therewith.\n[21st July 1873]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (18.5.2009) by Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Media City Extension) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1100), art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (9.6.2009) by Nottingham Express Transit System Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1300), art. 3(1) (with Sch. 13 para. 14(2), Sch. 14 para. 19, Sch. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (6.11.2013) by The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Second City Crossing) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2587), art. 3(1) (with arts. 42, 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (9.1.2014) by The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3244), art. 3(1) (with arts. 57, 58, Sch. 11 para. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (24.11.2016) by The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Trafford Park Extension) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1035), art. 3(1) (with arts. 43, 44)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (4.1.2018) by The Blackpool Tramway (Blackpool North Extension) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1214), art. 3(1) (with arts. 3(3), 58, 59)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:52.342216+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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